Serverless Contracts in Reading

Serverless Computing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 +14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 18 32 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.02% 2.68% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.96% 8.67% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 22
10th Percentile - £484 £525
25th Percentile £409 £506 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £644
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.80% +22.62%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £741
90th Percentile £641 £688 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £644
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.80% +25.61%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 8 (44.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (38.89%) Azure AKS
4 7 (38.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (38.89%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
6 4 (22.22%) AWS
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (11.11%) GitHub
8 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 4 (22.22%) Redis
4 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data
5 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) HBase
5 1 (5.56%) HDInsight
5 1 (5.56%) Impala
5 1 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) Selenium
4 2 (11.11%) JMeter
4 2 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (11.11%) Mockito
5 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 10 (55.56%) Azure Developer
3 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (38.89%) React Developer
5 6 (33.33%) Python Developer
6 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (16.67%) Backend Developer
8 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
8 2 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (11.11%) Senior
8 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (5.56%) Architect
9 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
9 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) React
2 4 (22.22%) GraphQL
2 4 (22.22%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) Prisma
2 4 (22.22%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Camel
3 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (11.11%) WireMock
3 2 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) PySpark
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 15 (83.33%) Microservices
2 12 (66.67%) DevOps
3 10 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (50.00%) SDLC
5 6 (33.33%) Product Backlog
6 5 (27.78%) Agile
6 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
6 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
7 4 (22.22%) API Design
7 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
7 4 (22.22%) Cost Management
7 4 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
7 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (11.11%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) Perl
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Spotify
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) New Relic
3 1 (5.56%) StreamSets